Multi-Vector Approach to Cities’ Transition to Low-Carbon Emission Developments

Autor: Daniel E. Dodor, Antwi-Boasiako Amoah, Daniel Kwabena Twerefou, Raymond Kasei, Delali B.K. Dovie, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
enhanced climate compatible development (EnCCD)
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Natural resource economics
climate resilience
020209 energy
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Geography
Planning and Development
TJ807-830
Climate change
adaptation
02 engineering and technology
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
Low-carbon emission
co-benefits
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
GE1-350
Product (category theory)
Adaptation (computer science)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Environmental effects of industries and plants
Scope (project management)
greenhouse gas emissions
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
Climate resilience
Environmental sciences
climate change
Greenhouse gas
Business
Psychological resilience
Zdroj: Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 5382, p 5382 (2020)
ISSN: 2071-1050
Popis: Globally, cities have made efforts to shift to low-carbon emission development (LED), amidst air pollution, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and high temperature anomalies. However, the emphasis on cities to help shift the global economy to LED has been on a single individual sector approach operating in silos rather than the inter and intra-specific outcomes of multiple sectors. Thus, there are uncertainties of adopting suitable pathways for cities’ transition to LED, due largely to data paucity and policy incoherence, constrained further by barriers to integrating science, policy, and practice. Hence, the need for cities to take advantage of the benefits of multi-directional perspectives of multiple sectors acting together—the “multi-vector” approach, to confront key questions of climate compatible development (CCD) that support LED. Therefore, the paper extends the development narratives of the CCD approach to an “enhanced” climate compatible development (EnCCD) pathway with in-built questions and determinants to scope cities’ transition to LED. The EnCCD suggests that the standalone intersection between mitigation and development to deliver LED will not result in cities’ resilience unless (i) co-benefits, which are outcomes of mitigation and adaptation, and (ii) climate-resilient development, the product of adaptation and development, coevolved. Therefore, the EnCCD transforms the development policy focus of cities on separate, single-purpose sectors, such as energy or transport, into multi-sector portfolios having synergistic benefits of mitigation, adaptation, and development strategies.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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